Solidarity Electoral Action

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Solidarity Electoral Action was a Polish political coalition formed in the 1990s that represented the political arm of the Solidarity trade union movement and played a major role in post-communist Polish politics.

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Solidarity Electoral Action canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct political party alliance
political coalition
country Poland
dissolved 2001
electoralResult 1997 Sejm – 201 seats
1997 Sejm – about 33.8% of the vote
1997 Senate – 51 seats
endOfGovernmentTerm 2001
formedGovernmentWith Freedom Union
hasPart Centre Agreement (Porozumienie Centrum)
surface form: Centre Agreement

Christian National Union
Confederation of Independent Poland
Movement for the Republic
Party of Christian Democrats
Polish Peasant Bloc
Real Politics Union
Solidarity Electoral Action of the Right
Solidarity movement
surface form: Solidarity trade union
headOfGovernment Jerzy Buzek
historicalContext post-communist transition in Poland
ideology Christian democracy
anti-communism
conservatism
solidarism
implementedReform administrative reform of Poland (1999)
education reform (late 1990s)
healthcare reform (late 1990s)
pension system reform (late 1990s)
inception 1996
notableMember Janusz Tomaszewski
Jarosław Kaczyński
Jerzy Buzek
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Lech Kaczyński
Ludwik Dorn
Marian Krzaklewski
officeHeld Prime Minister of Poland
opposedBy Democratic Left Alliance
parliamentaryGroupIn Sejm
surface form: Sejm of the Republic of Poland

Senate of Poland
surface form: Senate of the Republic of Poland
participatedIn 1997 Polish parliamentary election
politicalPosition centre-right
politicalWingOf Solidarność
surface form: Solidarity
precededBy post-Solidarity centre-right groupings
primeMinisterFrom Jerzy Buzek
reasonForDissolution electoral defeat in 2001
internal conflicts
represented interests of the Solidarity trade union movement
shortName AWS
startOfGovernmentTerm 1997
succeededBy Civic Platform
Law and Justice

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Solidarity movement hasPoliticalWing Solidarity Electoral Action
subject surface form: Solidarity
Democratic Left Alliance opposedTo Solidarity Electoral Action
Lech Wałęsa politicalParty Solidarity Electoral Action
Solidarność transformedInto Solidarity Electoral Action
Leszek Balcerowicz politicalParty Solidarity Electoral Action